Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finally almost overshadowed the Wallace campaign, giving the race the aura of a tight, old-fashioned two-man contest. Yet the oddities that have marked the campaign's course continued to show up regularly. Humphrey, long tormented by his low marks among college students but helped by the leadership of organized labor, got a far better reception from kids at Malone College in Canton, Ohio, than among the steelworkers in western Pennsylvania. Though still the underdog, he occasionally allowed his schedule to lapse back into its old inefficiency, so that he sometimes saw more billboards and countryside than voters...
...lines spoken loudest continued to be less than entertaining and far short of enlightening. Nixon started the week in Albany, N.Y., by decrying personal invective. Later, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, he called the Democrats "that scruffy bunch" and a "disorganized rabble not to be trusted with the new leadership." In Humphrey's Minnesota, he called the Vice President "a man who has been trained to say yes" and one "who has trotted meekly along behind his master." Though some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous week, encouraged...
...difficult thing to support the blacks," Hoffman said, "when we had put in a lot of time and work and had a lot of ability that was never called upon. But it was a good thing for us as whites to follow the leadership of blacks in their fight...
...flamboyant minister, a new leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, held the intense audience of 200 spellbound as his booming voice filled Lecture Hall with the history of the black race's suffering in America...
...doesn't understand or he doesn't choose to understand what are the requirements of union leadership. The thing a union leader wants above all else is to look good to his membership. John has repeatedly made these guys look bad, and now they hate his guts...